Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2009-08-17
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
6 pages, 5 figures, accepted to Physical Review %
Scientific paper
Femtosecond time-resolved optical spectroscopy was used to systematically study photoexcited carrier relaxation dynamics in the intermediate-valence heavy fermion system Yb1-xLuxAl3 (0 < x < 1). Given the demonstrated sensitivity of this experimental technique to the presence of the low energy gaps in the charge excitation spectrum, the aim of this work was to study the effect of dilution of the Kondo lattice on its low energy electronic structure. The results imply that in Yb1-xLuxAl3 the hybridization gap, resulting from hybridization of local moments and conduction electrons, persists up to 30% doping. Interestingly, below some characteristic, doping dependent temperature T*(x) the relaxation time divergence, governed by the relaxation bottleneck due to the presence of the indirect hybridization gap, is truncated. This observation is attributed to the competing ballistic transport of hot electrons out of the probed volume at low temperatures. The derived theoretical model accounts for both the functional form of relaxation dynamics below T*(x), as well as the doping dependence of the low temperature relaxation rate in Yb1-xLuxAl3.
Alexandrov Alexandre S.
Bauer Eric D.
Demsar Jure
Kabanov Vladimir V.
Lee Hyun-Jung
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